Student Research Expo
Student Research Expo Winners for 2021:
Thank you once again to all who made the 17th Annual Student Research Expo possible. The awards for outstanding entries as selected by our panel of judges are:
Outstanding entries in the Undergraduate Division:
- Tanner Badigian – The discovery of novel aerolysin homologs within yeasts (Paul Rowley, faculty mentor)
- Jordan Hieronymus – Identification and sequencing of zebrafish CRISPR mutants carrying Cas9-induced mutations in the apoc1 gene (Diana Mitchell, faculty mentor)
Outstanding entries in the Graduate Division:
- Megan Kight – Unusual annelated Weiss Cook reaction products: spectroscopic and crystallographic structural determination (Richard Williams, faculty mentor)
- Isiaka Lukman – Ultra-Wide Band Gap Semiconductors at UV ~3.3eV -7.0eV (Leah Bergman, faculty mentor)
- Kyle Seabourn – Polynuclear Metal Clusters Synthesized with a Redox Active Ligand (Sebastian Stoian, faculty mentor)
Sigma Xi Award:
- Sarah Lawrence – Delineating the reality of flood risk: a comparison of physics based and machine learning models (Sam Brody, Texas A&M University, faculty mentor)
Outstanding entries in the Virtual Exhibit Hall:
- Bandita Karki – Modeling a novel viral intervention strategy: Defective Interfering Particles (DIPs) (Steve Krone and Jim Bull, faculty mentors)
- Keera Paull – Bacteriophages of the honeybee, Apis mellifera (JT Van Leuven, faculty mentor)
Congratulations to all of these students for their outstanding work!